The Islamic State (or someone pretending to be it) is trying to raise funds using Bitcoin

In Internet messages posted late last month, an individual dubbed "Abu Ahmed al Raqqa" made an appeal to supporters of the Islamic State, asking them to send funds to the militant group so it could continue its plan to expand its "caliphate." These appeals were made on the "dark Web," a collection of Web sites that use anonymization software […]









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